Ten Things We Did As Children That Would Get You In Big Trouble Today

#2. KEEPING SCORE

No scores! Kids don’t need that kind of pressure right now! They are inundated with their parents’ incessant need to over schedule them with organized extracurricular activities.

This is probably the biggest killjoy of all: The constant need to protect our precious snowflakes from the disappointment of losing to the better team. They think that children would stress over this “unnecessary competition”, so everyone gets a trophy. Everyone wins! Nobody loses!

They are wrong.

There was a time when competition was recognized as the driving force of America’s greatness. Now we competitive types are looked upon as evil-doers, who want to crush little spirits just because we are keeping score.

News flash, parents! Kids are keeping score anyway, so why not let them revel in it and learn a bit of math too, while they’re at it. Let them learn know what it’s like to lose to a better team while they are still young enough benefit from the lesson as well as the awesome thrill of beating the other little league team fair and square!